Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Pilot activities in Monza, Italy 18 November 2019 Pilot activities in Monza, Italy |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Pilot activities in Barcelona, Spain 15 November 2019 Pilot activities in Barcelona, Spain |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Pilot activities in Schiedam, Netherlands 18 November 2019 Pilot activities in Schiedam, Netherlands |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. NESTORE Dutch pilot presented on JW TV! In this short interview with JWTV, our Dutch partner Ton Mosheuvel explains the pilot study that is about to start in Schiedam, Netherlands. During the pilots, NESTORE partners will test the usability and feasibility of a set of devices that together will form the NESTORE coach. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. NESTORE: Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities NESTORE: Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. A preliminary market analysis: identifying the context in which NESTORE is evolving A stream of activities of NESTORE focuses on the development and validation of NESTORE ecosystem and on the definition of an exploitation strategy. Preliminary activities aim at depicting an overview of the context in which the project evolves through the analysis of older adults' profiles and preferences and potential competitors. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. The gender approach in NESTORE: social coaching Men and women are unequally at risk of loneliness and may have different preferences to engage in social activities. The University of Zurich explains why so and how NESTORE has developed recommendations for social participation accordingly. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. What is an e-coach? As part of its preliminary research activities, NESTORE conducted a review of academic resources around "virtual coaching". The review enabled partners to refine their own definition of intervention techniques and coaching strategies for people to adopt healthy lifestyles. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Co-Designing NESTORE with those who might use it Based on a participatory methodology developed in the UK, researchers helped to translate both users’ perspectives and to co-design activities for technologists with the development of co-design tools. ‘Exhibition in a box’ (Chamberlain & Craig) was the co-design tool utilised in the first phase of workshops in the UK to identify user needs and values. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Euronews presents NESTORE NESTORE made the news: thanks to Euronews, we dive into the insights of our Dutch pilot and its focus on the system's design and its usability. Great work from Preventie Collectie and Politecnico di Milano for this shooting.<br /><br />Euronews is available on YouTube in 12 languages and you can find NESTORE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMHKPrC_kCk&feature=youtu.be |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. The gender approach in NESTORE: physical coaching Differences between men and women in body composition are well known: males typically have more muscle mass, more bone mass, and a lower percentage of body fat than women. But is that all? And how this influences NESTORE's recommendations for physical activities? Our partner CNR answers. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. About Funding Funding ACRONYM NESTORE FULL TITLE Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities GRANT AGREEMENT No 769643 TYPE OF ACTION Research and Innovation Action (RIA) TOPIC Personalised coaching for well-being and care of people as they age START DATE September 1, 2017 DURATION 3 years FUNDING 4977000,00 € (Euros) PROJECT COORDINATOR Giuseppe Andreoni Project ID 769643 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769643 |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. About Ethics Ethics NESTORE conforms to all ethical and legal requirements on: autonomy and informed consent; beneficence and justice; privacy, confidentiality and data protection; safety and wellbeing of participants. All research works was conducted in accordance to the relevant Conventions, Codes of Practices and national legislations that apply to research and data management. The project undertook the proper risk assessments regarding participants’ participation and the use of their personal data so the necessary measures were deployed in conformity with the latest European regulation on data protection. The project research activities were reviewed by the entitled research ethics committees of the consortium to assure (1) the highest level of protection for people participating in the project, and (2) the best research and innovation strategies. Among the leverage of the NESTORE project on ethics, please read: Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Decision-Making System Decision-Making System A Decision Support System (DSS) is software that assists its user in taking optimized decisions involving complex situations often from a large amount of input variables. It is designed to be a direct aid in choosing and juding the different available options to solve a problem. The DSS can be considered as the intelligence of NESTORE. The DSS processes data from multiple data sources, such as the monitoring system to be able to characterize users' behaviour, the users' profile to be able to characterize their likings and behaviours, and the coaching plans designed by the NESTORE experts. By analysing these data sources, the DSS is able to suggest tailored coaching plans taking into consideration the users' routines, behaviours, and preferences. During the execution of the coaching plans, the DSS provides the NESTORE e-Coach with tailored feedback based on integrated data sources encompassing the four target domains. For action planning, the DSS helps users scheduling the proposed coaching activities into their calendar, matching their availability with context requirements. Finally, the DSS helps them to adapt coaching activities to their needs and preferences, e.g., lowering the intensity of physical activity if the perceived required effort is too high. In short, the DSS can be understood as a model to structure knowledge and select personalized and context-aware coaching plans for ageing individuals. It takes advantage of both mHealth and cloud solutions to perform a multiple-stage processing of the data generated by users at different timestamps to provide different levels of feedback and user interaction. This allows NESTORE e-Coach to dynamically adapt to users' profiles and needs. Related publications: A Decision Support System to Propose Coaching Plans for Seniors (doi: 10.1109/CBMS.2019.00123) Dynamic Decision Support System for Personalised Coaching to Support Active Ageing (link) For more information, please contact EURECAT (website and Silvia's contact here: https://eurecat.org/en/field-of-knowledge/ehealth/. silvia.orte@eurecat.org ) |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Virtual Coach Virtual Coach The wise friend that will guide the user towards the healthiest pathways, the NESTORE Virtual Coach, is the main interface between the users and the whole NESTORE system. The Virtual Coach recommendations comes from the cloud-based decision-making system, which are orchestrated and proposed to the user through different digital and physical interfaces. Here you are the overview of the various models building NESTORE. The psychological model behind NESTORE (Task 5.1) Figure 10: The Health Action Process Approach Model: Mapping of Study and System Phases. Changing daily habits is not an easy task. This is the reason why the NESTORE recommendations and the several modules implemented in the Virtual Coach are grounded on a psychological model of behaviour change (the Health Action Process Approach), which defines different phases of behaviour change and different recommendations that should be given at each phase. The virtual coach interface has been designed in collaboration with psychologists in order to include state of the art behaviour change techniques (e.g., scheduling activities in a calendar, providing reminders, reviewing activities, etc.). Contact Person: Christina Röcke, University of Zurich, Switzerland Further Reading: D5.1: Definition of Intervention Techniques Virtual Coach conversational and emotional skills (Task 5.2) As a true friend, NESTORE is able to understand the user and to chat in a natural way. In order to do so, the Virtual Coach integrates a conversational agent that is able to converse with the user in both written and oral form. A chatbot interface was integrated in the NESTORE Coach app, so the system can text from time to time to the user to provide suggestions about the activities that can help improving the well-being and can continuously check on the well-being progress, always ready with some suggestions to keep the motivation up. Although the NESTORE Virtual Coach is not providing any mental psychological support, it is actually able to understand the emotions reported by the user, and it provides the user with a history of the detected emotions in the NESTORE Coach App, to reflect on. Contact Persons: Leonardo Angelini, HES-SO, Switzerland & Martin Sykora, Loughborough University, UK Further Reading: D5.2: Advanced Coach Interaction Design An embodied companion to talk with (Task 5.3) The co-design studies conducted in NESTORE showed the importance to develop a coach that is able to talk with user. The NESTORE Virtual Coach takes the shape of a tangible vocal assistant (see picture) that the user can carry in different rooms, and that can physically wake up by turning the device upside-down. The user can talk with the Virtual Coach about the activities to be done and the progress in the different well-being domain. Contact Person: Leonardo Angelini, HES-SO, Switzerland Further Reading: D5.3: Tangible Interfaces Can we play? Seriously? (Task 5.5) A serious game has been developed in NESTORE to provide guidance in particular NESTORE domains. Pocket Odyssey proposes to the user a playful journey to personalize a boat by getting points in the physical and cognitive domains. In the game, an avatar shows to the user how to perform the physical exercises recommended by the experts, while a submarine mini-game allows training at once multiple brain functions. Contact Person: Isabelle Kniestedt, Technology University Delft, The Netherlands Further Reading: D5.5: Serious Games for Continuous Engagement A portal towards activities in the real world (Task 5.4) The goal of the NESTORE Virtual Coach is to allow the user to find new daily healthier routines. Pushing users to discover new activities in their surrounding is the main role of the NESTORE Social Platform. At the same time, the Social Platform can provide social and technical support to the user, thanks to a forum and tutorials for the setup and use of NESTORE devices. Contact Person: Ciprian Candea, ROPARDO, Romania Further Reading: D5.4: Social Platform A journey towards well-being with the best User Experience (Task 5.6) The NESTORE Virtual Coach proposes a multidimensional intervention across 4 domains of well-being: physical, cognitive, nutritional and social. Focusing contemporarily an all the domains is a non-trivial challenge and the Virtual Coach has the role to empower the users to understand the importance of each domain and to make informed choices during their well-being pathway. The NESTORE Coach app is the main interface and tool for supporting the user throughout this behaviour change process, thanks to the many tools for scheduling new activities in the calendar and reflecting on their progress and well-being, with charts and insights that are available for each of the four domains. Contact Persons: Elena Bianchi, NEOSPERIENCE, Italy, & Leonardo Angelini, HES-SO, Switzerland Further Reading: D5.6: NESTORE Pathways and Supporting Apps |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Integration System Integration System The integration activities aim to offer to the end-users a compact NESTORE system, composed by wearable devices with biosensors, environmental sensors, food monitoring solution, a software for decisional support and a virtual coach. The whole system will guide the NESTORE users towards a healthy lifestyle. While leveraging state of the art technologies, the innovation in NESTORE’s architecture relies on its capacity to: provide a set of basic services by different apps, potentially offered by different stakeholders; to offer personal and personalized support according to the user needs and interest; to ease communication with family and friends as well as with careers; to propose external services based on “group” of interests. In designing these systems, two major directions are addressed: system architecture and e-coaching mechanisms. The architecture of the system is the basis of the entire system and determines the potential of the future coaching mechanism and its possibilities of intervention. The design of the presented architecture is done in a way that allows its use for various e-coaching solutions. It also addresses aspects that are found within the coaching system such as: personality characterization (such as gender, age, attitude, coaching goal, progress, and past experiences). Architecture integrates three interconnected and complementary components essential for the e-Coaching activity, which are the Monitoring System, the Decision support system (DSS) and the Virtual Coach . These components must work together and integrate each other, allowing also other applications to be easily added, while all components must comply with the cloud’s infrastructure requirements. Shared modules comprise: Identity Manager, Security Manager, User Profile, and Log Service that are used by Nestore. A wide range of data is used by the system, e.g. user data, sensor data, actuator access, and service membership, which are subject to security and privacy. Each of these areas offer a proper security level which is audited for compliance with existing rules. For more information on the system integration, please contact ROPARDO and FLEX. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. A flourishing of co-design across Europe Finding ways to design with people is at the heart of the research underpinning NESTORE. Since the project began, researchers in Lab4Living have been sharing their experience and expertise of co-design with colleagues on the project in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. Meet the experts: Simone Porcelli talks physical activity Dr. Simone Procelli is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Technologies of the National Research Council (CNR-ITB), Italy. In NESTORE, he is the expert for physical activity. He answers our questions. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. NESTORE advisors stress key principles to facilitate the adoption of the virtual coach The third and last official meeting of the Forum of Advisory Stakeholders (FAS) in October 2019 was the occasion for a round of feedback from our knowledgeable members, who appreciated the efforts and progresses done so far by the project. |
Contenido web This result comes from the inglés version of this content. COVID19: Keeping you healthy is our NESTORE priority! NESTORE is a project aiming to develop a virtual coach that will help us stay healthy and independent as we age. The outbreak of COVID-19, a new form of coronavirus, and its rapid spread around the world has obviously required the project partners to make rapid decisions to keep everyone safe and healthy. |
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